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Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-04-27

Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1874-04-27 page 1

sm i . tm mm m .mm mm m .jaarm . IDttJU i - , VOL. XXXV. i COLUMBUS MoKDAYf APRIL 27, 1874. NO. 99. SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book Manufacturers. ;i J , ViJi- x-.-.-.'i. . -V Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or ' Ut4 tingle Volume, v ' ; OPEBA lions E BUILDING, (Up Stairs.) ; '" .' i TcoLCMBirs.'. inrJO-J' 1 1 , Olllcei lllsh, Pearl mid Clinpel Sis. m. oomli. . a. with. A. w. ihanchco. COMLY, SMITH & FRANCISCO, Pl'R!,t"HEK(l AND PBOPR1 ETORS. ,ia.,ii:n hi. cosily, Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Studer's Columbus and the Weekly, Ohio State Journal, One v8ar for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents! LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Congress. Aprii 25. The Senate was not in session. The Houbc resumed consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill in cotfimittee of the Whole, and adopted the amendment, by Mr. Garfield, appropriating one million dollars to pay judgments of the Court of Claims. On a motion by Mr. Nesniilh, of Oregon, to strike out from the paragraph relating to the Department of Justice an item of $1400 for the care and subsistence of horses, and $000 for repairs to carriage and harness, a long, spirited and soitiewhat personal debate arose relating to the general subject of appropriation of Government horses and carriage to private use in the Departments. Mr. Xesmith's amendment was agreed to 85 to 09. A further amendment was adopted forbidding any Government officer to receive perquisites, hereafter, outside of his regular salary. The third section of the bill, increasing the office hours of the Department! from six to seven, was struck out on motion of Mr. Lawrence. Consideration of the bill was then concluded, and the House adjourned. Constitutional Convention. April 25. Numerous tempernnce petitions were presented, as usual, and the debate on propositions in regard to the liquor traffic was resumed. A proposed section authorizing license, with an amendment empowering the General Assembly to provide at the same time agiiust the evils resulting from traffic in liquors, was ordered printed. Xo other conclusion wus reached. The Sunday Commercial yesterday was a splendid number. The Graphic has a capital likeness of George Alfred Townsend, April 21. Also, one of Murat Halstead, April 24. . Both are the best likenesses of their respective originals we have seen anywhere. A gentleman writes from Newark: "Not only does Newark give the Postoflice Department a postoffice free, but they have carried the mails free also, for five years, between the depot and the post-office. Coshocton also fitted up a room for nothing;" New York merchants and business men want orders from the South and West. The South and West want currency to pay for the goods ordered. Where is the currency ? Cleveland llcrold. It generally gravitates, toward the people who have saleable articles, and a way of getting them to market. What do the discontented inflationists mean by saying that the veto has unset tied everything, anil thrown us back to where we were last December, so far as the settlement of the currency question is concerned? Don't the veto settle the question ? It occurs to us the question in pretty definitely settled that we Bhall have no further inflation. And the question seems settled with equal definitenesg that Congress will not vote for contraction. If we have neither inflation nor contraction, it would seem that the currency is pretty sure to remain in statu quo which is next best thing to a specie basis. Mr. Joseph Smxivant has from Prof. Mendenhall, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, a dozen or so specimens of "Pendulum Autographs," which are exquisitely beautiful in their perfection of form. These autographs were obtained Prof. Mendenhall says, by one of the young men in the physical department during last week. They were produced ' by means of the "great iron pendulum weight 80 lbs., suspended from two . points. A glass pen was fastened to the lowest point, and the . autographs are actual traces from the vibrations. The suspension being known, the vibrations can be predicted, and in every case "come out all right." If we could produce the eccentric and beautiful curves, perfectly rounded, and coming back with unerring accuracy to the point of departure, after an apparently inextricable mate of wan dering, but symmetrical motion, the read er would see the point to this "accurate prediction." No finer tracings have ever been published. Prof. Mendenhall says We are assured on the most competent authority, that this College has the beat, ' ' and so far as is known, the only Physical Laboratory ia the West, where the etu ' dents are engaged in daily practice and original research. The same can be said of the value of the Chemical and Zo ological Departments, and Geology. The Trustees and Professors of this College are enthusiastic in their work to a degree that amsunta to something like religious devotion. , ,' , ' ' " "'' Tbe West Made noiirt and Happy. "The West has a large population which is silent in politics, but is accustomed to think for itself. There ia more culture there than our Eastern pesple suppose. Many of the Western journals are showing an acuteness and breadth of culture in their discussions on the currency, which will soon educate their readers. We have unlimited faith in discussion, especially with an intelligent population like the Western." Sev York Times, y - It was mighty polite of the New York Time's to put it so handsome. " The West," says The Times, "is all that part of the United States lying beyond the Al-leghanies." As part of that insignificant section, now just brought into notice by the kindness of The Times, we beg to tender our sincere acknowledgments. If the English gentleman who holds the reins of this Jonathan Jupiter will only oome West, we insure him a hearty Western' Welcome. He shall go out with us to Chief Justice Chase's old place, in Columbus, and Bhoot buffalo. Chase was a rough cuss a real Western man. He always liked to have plenty of buffalo to kill when he came home on a visit, and all the Indian scouts hereabout respected his wishes. They would just as soon have worn store clothes as kill one of Chase's buffaloes. Justice Swayne's ' old place, too, is only half a square from Chase's. Swayne ain't much for buffalo, but in case of any little amusement springing up in Court he could scalp the opposing counsel as quick as Kit Carson himself. He wears all the scalps under his judicial robe, when he sits on the Supreme bench at Washington. It wouldn't be a bad notion for our English friend to bring Whitelaw Eeid along, too. He is an Ohio boy, and he knows our "Wild West ern Ways." (He is running The Tribune now, you know.) Quincy Ward knows us, too. Born here. Howells of the Atlantic wouldn't be a bad fellow to bring along. When noweils gets his hunting shirt and moccasins on, and has himself done up in Vermillion and eagle feathers, he makes a very conspicuous figure on our streets. Tbe last time he was here we saw as many as two dozen turkeys, besides other wild game, on one of the principal streets, in front of the residence of the writer, in point of fact. We have deer, antelope, bison, members of the Legislature, wild turkeys, and other game, right on the streets, in season ; fish also, in every variety. By the way, Chief Justice Waite is another specimen of Western culture, who might make it interesting for the editor of the Times a few days in Toledo. Waite generally spends his time when he is at home Bpearing frogs off the steps of the Oliver House at Toledo. Grant isn't a bad specimen, either, but he is busy just now, writing veto messages. Delano, too, is one of our men, but he has to help Grant. If you have a taste for the mili tary, you will find General Sherman (we call him "Cump" out here) just about the best man on a bum we have ever bad in Columbus. In fact he made a lively Hood bumming around down South during the war. Sheridan is another jolly boy. There are Btill some of the aborigines left among us, though they are gradually scattering out, east and west. Donn Piatt may not be unknown to you. When he wears his native hue of resolution he is a warrior of the Miami Tribe, but this is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought when he straddles the tripod of the Washington Capital. Halstead, also, belongs to the Miamis, and was the great historian of its blue haired maidens be fore he became editor of the Cincinnati Commercial. On reflection, Bob Schenck would be the very man to bring bar English friend West. Bob understands the etiquette of St. James, and is equally at home here where his home is, and where we all like him. Besides, Bub is the best poker player on the two continents. Just speak to the President of the Erie Railroad Company, who is another Ohio man, and he will undoubtly place a special car at your service, in order that you may see the wonders of the wild West. If the New York Sun can spare its biographical editor, by his Cumming along you might be able to find the truly good man of the Gazette, whose fame has gone abroad through all the wilderness about Cincinnati.We have purposely mentioned only a few Ohio men who have escaped from their native wilds so far as to make them selves known to a few people in the East other Western States may be left to take care of themselves, There are also a few other Ohio people, both in and out of this State, whose names it might be tedious to mention, that would be glad doubtless to reciprocate the politenesBof the editor of The Times in some way, if he would but come among us. There is not a log cabin in Columbus where he would not be made welcome as the flowers in May. He would have to run the gaunt let of the squaws, but this is mere tender fooling when they really feel friendly, as they .would to any person who pays such pretty compliments as the editor of The Times. It it absurd on the part of the Repub. lican inflationists to claim that the Presi dent was inclined to approve the inflation policy until "overwhelmed by lobbyists from New England and New York, and his own better judgment stifled." The message is in precise consistency with the views expressed by President Grant on every occasion where he has ever ex pressed any views on the subject of Finance. If our inflation friends have been misled it is because they have been self-deceived. Over and over again the enterprising correspondents have announced changes ; have announced that the President had no views of his own that be was indebted even for thi very language he used to some person willing to reap the advantages of his supposed influence at the White House. And over and over again th President has gone on, with unimpaired cheerfulness, doing precisely what the enterprising correspondents have said he would not do, and maintaining an inexorable . consistency with his own repeated declarations of policy. The -only ' thing left for the enterprising correspondents,' thereupon, is to pretend to their deluded readers that the President did change his mind, and that no reliance is to be placed upon his fickle judgment. " It is perfectly marvellous how long it lakes for the gullible public to understand that the enterprising correspondents have been ignorant and reckless, in setting false rumors afloat with their indorsement, and that the President has kept on his course precisely as he has announced from the beginning. The public seems willing to be gulled by suspicions and false rumors as often as the ingenious forger of news cares to amuse himself in that way. The last thing the credulous public thinks of is to doubt the accuracy of accounts which would lead it to. believe that the President is going seven different ways at once, and has no mind of his own in any one of the seven. The brief and concise facts of the veto are, that it is perfectly consistent with the President's oft repeated declarations on that subject. Moreover, it is in accord ance with congressional pledges, repeated in every act passed with reference to the currency, and is upheld and, supported in effect by the party platforms of both the great National parties at the last Presidential election. The following extracts decorate the title page of General Garfield's recent anti-inflation speech in Congress : "Thou shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be length ened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Dent, in, 15. "A false balance is abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight." Proverbs, it, 1. "Capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper." Thomas Jef ferson. " We are in danger ot being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper repi senting, not gold, nor silver, no, sir representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." Daniel Webster. Iluxlues education in DemnnrB. Clemens Petersen, in The Galaxy for May.l The third partner in the Scandinavian union is the Danish people, a nation of islanders, very apt to burst into song when they see a stretch of low hills, with some beech trees scattered over the slope; always merry when they feel a western gale sweeping over their faces; sick when they cannot see the ocean, and deeply in love with certain large globe clouds which drift over their sky all the year round, every now and then bursting into roaring rain, and then peacefully retiring behind a brilliantly painted rainbow. The Danes are of ' a mercantile turn of mind. When the English poor laws were under preparation, the English ambassador to Copenhagen sent in a report, in which he struck 'exactly the most characteristic trait in the nature of the Danish people. The first thing, he said, a poor Dane strives to get possession of, is a meerschaum pipe, and the next a clock, not because he likes to smoke, or because he wishes to keep himself posted about the time, but because he intends to trade with them. It is true. A foreigner would be very much surprised at seeing the peasant lads going to church on a Sunday morning, each carrying a meerschaum pipe in his hand, and still more surprised he would be at seeing them return, none carrying the same pipe. They have traded in the meantime. In the church? No, not exactly so. But after service they gather on the lawn outside the high, whitewashed Btone wall.which encircles the churchyard, and here is held a real pipe and clock market, and here is won the first penny of many a great fortune. A M'ouinn Village. The long talked of woman'scomniunity within the limits of tbe town of Woburn, twelve miles from Boston, was actually begun last month, by the raising of the frame of the first building. In this com munity all the land is to be owned by women; and, so far as the management of the affairs of the village is concerned, woman suffrage is to prevail to the utter political di"qualification of men. The members ot tne community are oongeao assent to a constitution which ia to govern it, but further than this they are not restrained ; except, that they are expected to attend, at least once a week, upon the uncertain religious service to be held. This village i to be called Aurora. Each house is to have its garden, the main re liance for moneyed success is to be on co operative schemes. One of these is the establishment of a laundry where full fa cilities are to be aflorded for doing work on a laree scale, and competing with the fa mous Irov laundries. Men are not to be excluded from the village, nor from some ownership of property, nor from the op portunity of work ; but widows and maid en ladies will likely be regarded as pref erable to married women, even though the husband be only a kind of inferior adjutant to the woman. A II nt;e Mlteleton. Popular Science Monthly.! The most remarkable object in the War ren Museum is the largest skeleton of the Mastodon giganteut ever discovered on the continent. By its Bide, in wav of contrast, is the frame of the elephant Pizarro, the largest ever brought to this country. The skeleton of the Mastodon giganteut will not fiil to cause the visitor to start back in awe. and he will be hardly able to sup nuns t Ka f ailionlSifn rf fvnlaj "Trvi n"nat. hie 1" It is twelve feet high,' and thirty-four feet in length, from the tin of the tusks to the extremity of its tail. Its trunk is seventeen feet in length. J he animal must have weighed more than 20,' 000 pounds ! "The premium on gold yesterday de clined totwelveand threeeigntsper centum The premium on Wednesday morning was hirteen and threequartera per cent, iflerence adds to the gold value of The our currency over tevtn miliums ticht kundrrd and ten thtmmnd dollars. Kvery paper dol lar vesterdav was worth over a rent more than the day before." Boston Transcript. And no one's wages reduced in consequence no strikes about it no scarcity of labor or oread; on me contrary, a emwth of confidence, a tense of security. Still the fellows who an expecting to get three hundred new paper dollars esch are in a sad state. -Wimnmut Commercial. The ludicrous has its place in the uni verse: it is not a human invention, but one of the divine ideas, illustrated in the practical jokes of kittens and monkeys long before Aristophanes or bhakeepeare. tfotmtt. , BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL LOWER MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. Interruption of Halls nnd Hallway Travel The Water Keerdlnic at Heine Points and Hl.lns; at Others ajoutluned . C'ousiernatlon and Distress In the Inundated ! trlcM. i New Orleans, April 26. The river is falling," and is now five feet below high water. From five to seven days' mails have been, due from Northern, Eastern an J Western cities. The New York mail of the 15th and some of the .20th is re? ceived, the intervening and subsequent dates missing. The Mobile and New Orleans railroad loses a bridge or has a wash-out every " few days, ' and seems to display much more energy in choking off information in regard to mishaps than they do in getting over breaks. Now at least three important bridges are gone between this city and Mobile. The Jackson route is also in bad condition, bridges being gone and a portion of it submerged. Monroe, La., April 25. The river has risen over an inch in twentyfonr hours. Another break in Pargond upper levee has precipitated a heavy volume of water on the back part of the city, and the rise there at the same time has been five inches. The water has backed up in ditches nearly to the Hunsaker hotel. In some places on the river front the water is from six to fifteen inches above the street, but has been leveed. The rear of the city is filling up fast, about five squares on an average from the river front to the overflow being out of water the length of the city. People continue coming in from the rear as the water approaches. Sidewalks and streets are the only pastures for stock. The loss of cattle and hogs by the overflow is very great. The sun shone all day, and there is a prospect of better weather. No intelligence from above, but another rise is expected from recent rains. MoNnoE, La., April 26. The river rose a quarter of an inch last night, and the backwater an inch and a half. Washington street is overflowed to within three blockB of the river. The river is on a stand to-day, and the weather fair and warm. No intelligence from above or he-low. The railroad company has surrendered its mail contract between here and Yicksburg. The telegraph is now the only source of correspondence. WASHINGTON PROIBED NEW CURRENCY fit IX Washington, April 2G The Senate Finance committee will this week consider the House Finance bill, It is thought by many conservative men that a bill may be formed acceptable to the Senate combining the feature of redemption proposed in that hill with the right to issue additional bank notes on the condition that a certain proportion of legal tender notes shall be withdrawn at the same time, and many are of the opinion that if such a bill shall be reported from the Senate committee with provisions authorizing free banking, it will pass the Senate and House and receive the approval of the President. rations for the inundated. Although Congress passed a bill for the relief of sufferers by the overflow on the lower Mississippi, it has been lound that no supplies can lie spared from the various military stations in that region, and therefore the Secretary of War, after pri vate conference with the President, has directed the Commissary of Subsistence to purchase 500.000 rations of meat, Hour, beans and rice, and, to carry the law into effect, asks an appropriation of $90,000. The estimate is based on an issue to ZU, 000 persons for twenty Ave days. return of general sickles. A private letter from General Sickles says he will return to the United States in two months. ST. LOUIS. Ran Over and Killed-Rellef for Suf ferer by the Lower Mississippi Flood-War Material for the Brooks Faction. St. Louis, April 20. Everett Babbitt, supposed from papers found on his per son, to be Iron. Massachusetts, was run over and killed by a train on tbe Missouri Pacific railroad yesterday afternoon nt Kirkwood, fifteen miles west of this city. The Louisiana Keliet committee yester- ay applied $1000 to aid in preventing the destruction of Miliken's Bend levee, near Vicksburg. Additional contributions of money and provisions Hre being made for the benefit of sufferers from the overflow in Louisiana, Large numbers of the most prominent ladies in the city are arranging for an immense amateur concert sb a means ot adding to this nind. The Times asserts that 2000 Springfield rifles, 13,000 rounds of ammunition and several cases of pistols have been shipped from here in a secret manner ler the use of Brooks's forces at Little Kock since the difficulties broke out. There are also said to have been five car loads of pro visions shipped to the same parlies. CLEVELAND. Diabolical Behavior of an Old Man Large Theft of Laves. Cleveland, April 26. An old man named Lytton White, sixtytwo years of sge, has been arrested for enticing little children into his candy and trinket shop, near a public school, and instructing them in every vulgarity ot speech and practice imaginable. He was sentenced to a year in the work house, and fined three hundred dollars and costs. The victims are said to be counted by scores. Seven thousand dollars worth of laces is reported stolen from the store of Leslie & loung. ino clue to the perpetrators, Arrett of a Swindler. Lafayette, Ind., April 26. An un known man was arrested here this morn ing representing himself as H. C. Hodges, agent for Howe's circus, and bound over in the sum ot zu,uuu to answer in the Criminal Court. He is alleged to have played the same game at two or three other places, making contracts, issuing free tickets, etc. 1. K. ioole, press scent of the show, caught him at it here and caused bisarrest. Snow In H'V Enoiand. Boston. April xu. a severe snow storm, accompanied by a heavy gale, has: prevailed throughout the Jew England States to-dav. Snow fell from six inches to a foot in depth. At Rockland the gale has been the severest experienced for years, and resulted in much damage to shipping. Six or seven vessels are ashore. Twenty inches of snow is reported at Danbury, Uonn. Odd Fellawa Aaaiveraary. Cincinnati, April 26 All the lodges of Odd Fellows in the city met nt Pike's Opera House to-day to celebrate the an' niversarv of the introduction of Odd Feb lowship in the United States. Ssmuel Yorke Atlee, of San Francisco, California, delivered the address. All the lodges ot the city will hold meetings and hear ad dresses to-night. rOHEIGN. ENCII.ANU. U AOEZ CANAL TRdUBLE SETTLED. London, April 28.-Advices from Constantinople are to the tflect that the Suez Canal difficulty has been settled by M. de Lesseps's acceptance of tonnage rates prescribed by the international commission. " n .... .. '.' HEBMANt'."": ' ' CLOSE OF THE REICHSTAG. Berlin, April 20. The Emperor William in perron closed the Reichstag: yesterday with a formal speech of no great importance. STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS. Liverpool, April 26. The steamships Holsatis, from New York, and the Illinois, from Philadelphia, have arrived out. . . i ; SPAIN. , humored application for amnesty. Madrid,. April 2(1. A rumor is current that theCarllBla have asked Marshal Serrano for amnesty. NEW YORK. RUMOR AOUT SENATOR SCHUR1!. New York, April 20. It is reported that Carl Schurz has accepted the editor ship of a leading German daily, at ten thousand dollars per annum, and win remove to New York at the end of his pres ent Senatorial term. LIQUOR LICENSE FEES. The excise commissioners have refused to aid the Liquor Dealers' Protection Association in getting the passage of a bill through the Legislature reducing license fees, etc. A DRAWN MATCH. The pigeon shooting match between Paine and Bogardus became a draw in consequence of the weather yesterday, Paine paying the cxpenseR of Bogardus. INTERNATIONALS DISBANDING. The Federal Council of Internationals resolved last night to dissolve, the organi zation having proved a failure in the United States. DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. Rev. O. Eastman, honorary Secretaryj of the American Iract Society, died on Friday. He was born at Amherst, Mass., in 1790. Weather Prnbnbllltlcs. Washington. April 28. During Mon day over New England north to west winds, diminishing in force, and generally clear weather will prevail. tut Middle States and Lower Lake region clear or partly cloudy weather, with winds shifting to northeast and southeast over the latter, but to east and south over the former. For South Atlantic and Gulf States east of the Mississippi southwest to southeast winds and clear weather. From Tennessee northward over the Ohio valley to Lake Erie and Upper Lakes increasing south to east winds, rising temperature and threatening weather, with rain. For Missouri south to east winds, cloudy and rainy weather. Terrific Storm or Wind and Know. '. Foucihkeepsie, N. Y., April 20. The storm of yesterday and last night at Boston Corners was terrific, and heavier than known before for years. The Harlem mail train was compelled to lay over at Millenton for fear of being blown from the rails. At Weissmann's Cut the snow was four feet deep. Montpelier, Vt., April 2fi. It began snowing here last evening, and one foot of snow fell in twelve hours. It was one of the heaviest snow storms of the season. B7 MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The growing wheat in Northern Texas is reported in excellent condition. Colorado has now 700 miles of finished railway. Recent discoveries of gold, silver and lead have been made in the vicinity of Fort Smith, Ark. The United States Mint in San Fran cisco coined ?20,:!41,000 from .Inlv 1. 1873, to March 31, 1874, against $17,001,500 for the entire fiscal year preceding. In 1868 five men robbed a man named Bennehoff, near Meadville, Pa., of half a million dollars. One of them, named Laeger, stole the entire amount from his comrades, and has never since been heard from until last Sunday evening, when he was identified and arrested at Denver, Colorado. ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. Natnral History Society. The Columbus Natural History Society held an interesting meeting on Saturday, in the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture.A number of rare fossils and minerals were shown, among others a collection of one hundred and twenty different Italian and Prussian specimens of marbles, of uniform size, and showing their adaptability to polish and use. Members of the Society reported their observations on the field day, April 18. Over fifty specimens of birds were noted, together with several mammals, mollusks, and a limited num ber of flowering plants. The ponds along the Little Miami railroad, near Sullivant's Hill, were reported as aflbrding a great number of species of the smaller contra- ceaus and such animals as can be best studied under the microscope. Dr. Town- send read a short paper on Spurious Vaccination.It was decided to hold another field meeting in May, probably at Flint Ridge, Muskingum county. Loral Personal. Hon. W. P. Kerr, of the Constitutional Convention, was in the city on Saturday. Captain John A. Arthur has severed his connection with Springfield Leader, L. G. Manypenny has returned from Missouri to permanently reside in Colum bus. Colonel James Taylor and Colonel J, W. Free, of New Lexington)' are in the city. Coates Kinney, of Xenia, left for home Saturday evening, after interviewing Co lumbus for a couple of days. Mr. Thompson will enter upon the dis charge of his duties as Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to-day. Commissions have been issued to seven hundred and twentythree Justices of the Peace elected on the 6th of April, and the " commission " banner still hangs on the outer wallt The 29th of May is the date named for tbe meeting of the Ohio State Editorial Association In this city. Mr. Joshua Saxton, of the Urbana Cititen, is the President. Fora-etfulnest of Words. All the Year Round. Dr. Abercrombie records an instance of a gentleman who uniformly called his snuff-box a hogshead. When reminded of the error he probably recognized it, but his tendency was, nevertheless, in this direction. His physician hypothetically traced the oddity to an early and long-continued association of ideas. The gentleman had been a tobacco merchant in Virginia, and had his attention well occupied with hogsheads of tobacco and boxes of snuff. This may not be a sufficient explanation, but it was the only one that suggested itself, as he made no similar blunder with other words. Certainly a greater difficulty was presented by the gentleman who always called coals paper and paper coals, systematically, as it would appear, transposing the meanings of the two words. Both substances, it is true, are used in lighting a fire; but this fact does not suffice to solve the puzzle. An inability to remember the names of things sometimes presents itself in a remarkable way. A gentleman engaged in extensive agricultural affairs could not remember the spoken names of things, but recognized them directly when written. He arranged his daily duties accordingly, and with a degree of success that could be expected under the circumstances. He kept before him in his business room a list of words which were most likely to occur in his intercourse with his workmen. When any one of his men wished to communicate with him on any subject, the master listened attentively to what was said; the sound of the words did not convey to his mind the idea of the things or commodities signified, but it did suggest to him written words, which he therefore proceeded to consult. The sight of the letters forming those words at once gave him the necessary clue to the meaning.The process was noteworthy ; the sound of a word, when spoken, suggested the shape of the word when written, and this Bhape suggested the ideaor mental picture of the thing signified. This appears to have been i permanent peculiarity of mind, or, at least, of long continuance, unconnect ed with any particular malady. In an other case, which came under the notice of Dr. Gregory, a lady, consequent on an apoplectic fit, lost her memory of names, but retained it for things. Although a good housewife, she could only direct her servants and trades-people by pointing to the things concerning which she meant to speak. All went on well in regard to the other words of a sentence, but when she came to the names of things, memory failed her, and she could only convey her meaning by pointing. 'Flfl j Uollnrs, or 1 Scream." St. Louis Uispatch, April 20. The pranks of a lady at least in appearance along the line of the Missouri Pacific railroad recently have caused the depletion of the pocketbooks of several hotel proprietors at different towns, and among them Warrensburg, and while the money was parted with, there is still at least peace in the landlords' households. It will suffice to narrate how tliipj female "did her little job" at Warrensburg, as related to a Dispatch reporter: She visited the town in the capacity of a book agent, to impress upon the incredulous the advantage to be gained by a subscription to the "most interesting and instructive work ever published." Arriving in town at noon, she immediately went to a hotel, which shall be nameless, and registered. She was shown to a room and made her toilette. The next step was to ring a bell which ushered a boy in her presence, to whom she communicated the fact that she desired to see the landlord. The message was delivered to the landlord, and in the course of a few minutes he met her face to face in her room. ' As he entered the room she quietly locked the door, and placing the key in her pocket, said : "Now, Mr. , I wish to have a few moments' chat with you." "Well, ma'am," replied the landlord, "what you have to say, say it quickly, for I am in a hurry." In a very self-composed manner the book agent drew herself up, and said she : "Now, Mr. , you are a married man, are vou not ?" "Yes, ma'am" meekly replied the land lord "You have children, two of whom are nearly of age, have you not I" "Yes, ma'am," again replied the hus band "Well, then." said the book agent, "if vou have any respect for vourseli er lam ily, pay me fifty dollars or I will scream." the landlord was bewildered, and being mild-mannered man protested only in well-rounded phrases. This but made matters worse, and desiring to avoid a disagreeable reflection upon his wife and children he agreed to pay her btty dol lars, which he did, and on the evening train she left for Pleasant Hill, where, it IB said, she played the same game. The landlord at Warrensburg thinks it rather expensive to pay fifty dollars to keep a woman from screaming, but there are only a few who know of it, and being rather digmhed gentleman, and one whose private character is spotless, he is not joked about it. Prodis of Minnesota Farmers. The Minnesota Tribune of April 15 says 'Minnesota farmers have pretty generally disposed of their surplus wheat, and it is sale to say that they have realized, on an average, a dollar a bushel on all they have sold. Prices have ruled from six to twelve cents higher this winter than they did last; the winter has been open, the sleighing excellent, so that there has been no reasonable excuse for farmers holding their wheat over. Most of them, we are glad to know, have sold, got their money, paid some of their debts, and made more extensive preparations than usual for putting in crops this year, the wheat crop of 1873 wss the salvation ot Minnesota during the panic which swept over the land. ami we come out of a financially hard winter in a far better condition than we were in a year ago, when there was no panic." Looking back at the strange and erro neous notions which wen formerly entertained of the nature and cause of insani ty, and considering what little observation was made of its manifold varieties, we cannot wonder that its jurisprudence was in a very defective state. At first two kinds of insanitr onlv seem to have been recognized by English law idiocy and lunacy: the idiot who, Irom his nativity, by a perpetual infirmity is turn com pot, and the lunatic who bath sometimes nis un demanding, and sometimes not, aliquanda gaudet lueidit intermllis, and therefore is .on compos mentis, so long ss he hath not understanding, out as time went on partial insanity was recognized ss distinct from total insanity, although this partial insanity was declared not to absolve a person from responsibility for his crimin al acts. Money never made a man happy yet. nor will it, i here is nothing in its ns lure to produce happiness. The more a man has the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it sat isfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another wav. That was a true prov erb of the wise man, relv npon it i Bet ter is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. rrentas. ODDS AND ENDS.' The most enterprising speculator in numan Hair me wild Indian. . How to get rich Learn to'lfte on air and sleep on a clothes line. . - Is it good English to ask the gunsmith "What ia the price of that air gun?" ' Home-made sausages have suddenly got into great demand. "Love me. love my dog." There is one town in Connecticut that is not afraid of the measles. It's Had-dam. i .i...-ii--- Ideas are the persons of the intellect, and persons the idess of the heart.!'. Parker, ... : An old wine-bibber Bays that an empty champagne bottle is like an orphan, because it has lost its pop. A doctor was once asked to dance the "Lancers." He declined ; but expressed a willingness to lance the dancers. I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one. Not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer is the easier. Seneca. There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. Haxlitt. Glycerine and whisky is the last remedy for a cold. Care should be used in selecting tbe whisky. The glycerine is not of so much consequence. Boston Globe. Classical students will please finish this sentence with a familiar article of diet: "When the Greeks looked at Plato and Socrates, they " Yes; that's right. They ssw sages, of course. "Don't prevaricate, sir I" thundered a Columbiad judge to a witness from the mine. "Can't help it, Judge," answered the miner. "Ever since I got a kick from a mule that knocked my teeth out I prevaricate a good deal." Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a vail the prospect of life to come; for, if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast?- Once, When preaching at Wapping to a congregation composed principally of seafaring men and fisherwomen, Howland Hill greatly astonished bis congregation by commencing his sermon with these words : "I come to preach to you great sinners, notorious sinners yea, to Wapping sinners V It is not work that kills men, it's worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices Beecher. "Does this razor go easy?" asked the barber of a victim who was writhing under a clumsy instrument whose chief recommendation was a strong handle. "Well," replied the poor fellow, "that depends upon what you call this operation. If you are skinning me, it goes tolerably easy; but if you are shaving me, it goes rather hard." A correspondent of the Key Wett Dis patch Bays that on Cozumel Island are yet to be seen the walls of the first church ever built on the continent of North America. Cortez was the builder, before he conquered Mexico. The foundation and walls are yet partly preserved, each side having an elevation of about ten feet in places. The altar is nvprornwn wirh brush, and wild flowers bloom and birds sing over the tombs of the eariy adven turers. An old Parisian beggar, famous for his success, thusexplains the business "rules" to which, he says, he invariably adheres : "I never ask alms of any one who haB dined, as ro6i renders a man selfish; nor a stout man, as it bores them to stop; nor of any one putting on his gloves; nor of a lady alone; but always of any one manl- te8lly going to dinner; of people walking together, as -their amour propre makes them generous; of officers in grand uniforms, and of people apparently seeking favors from the Government they think that a gift will bring them luck." You have heard of the man who. come down the river in a flatboat, moored tbe boat to the bank, and going up into the timber, saw a fellow climbing first one tree, then rapidly descending (and occasionally falling), running to another tree and repeating the operation. Continuing this for some time, the natboatman asked him what he was doing, , The stranger, pointing to a woodpecker on the topmost branch, asked the flatboatman if he saw that woodpecker. "Yes," said the other, "but you certainly do not expect to catch it?" "No, of course not." said the stranger, "but I will worry it," an epitaph. I will be rich f I said, And I stn poor; I will be great I And I tm Irsst of All. . When I am I1, ssid 1, And 1 sm dend ; 1 will be loved t And 1 sm clean forgot; I 1 will be wiiie I This one truth have I learned That death alone was certain in lny life. Social Relations in France. Albert Rhodes, in The Guitar for Ma)'. The liens which bind relations together are close and strong; hence the prudence exercised by parents in the choice of a husband for their daughter, or a wife for their son. The man who marries the daughter also marries her family, to the cousin eerman. Ihe parents look at possible husband for their daughter with a riew to a close and constant association. and they exercise a close and vigilant watch lest her affections should become engaged in a qusrter not approved by them. Ihe parental authority is admit ted to such an extent, that if the young man were to propose a marriage lo their daughter, without consulting them, he would tie held as a dishonorable man; the proposition is made to them, and they give the answer, in some instances with out the daughters knowledge. Ill is brings about solidarity in the family, com posed of members predisposed to kind li ness and sympathy, and it also gives rise to uneasiness when a new element is pre sented for admission lest it should dis turb harmony. Through intimacy and sympathy they have accommodated them' selves to each other's habits and ca prices, and have succeeded In living in the same groove. The French are much attached to their habits, the proof of which is, that they can never entirely ac commodate themselves to those of other lands, but after a season of nostagia return to those of their native country. This tenscity to hshit sometimes assumes a form that is ludicrous. Matrimonial propositions hsve been refused because the candidate disliked the game of brtique or the novels 01 Diimsa. A possible mar riaoe connection with a foreigner of differ ent religion and race, ia regarded with disfavor, and the daughter is kept away from such temptation by general holding stool irom loreign intercourse. There is much going to and fro between family connections in France, in the wav of dinners, breakfssts and quiet parties of pleasure. Jsesid tbe social intercourse, there are close relations in practical affairs. If a member of th family enter- tains a proposition in a matter of business, it is submitted to his wife, and probably to all his immediate connections, before it is decided upon. This is in striking contrast to the American, who often concludes aihurs involving the half of his fortune, without his wife's knowledge. It is carried to an extent that is wearisome in France. . , - , HARRIED. Sraaucx Zin Apiil 21, by Rev. I. P. Stidbam, at th) residence of the bride's mether, Mr. J. 8. Mtabbuck. of Union City. Indiana, and Miss Sarah Zinn. New Advertisements. MASONIC. THERE WILL BE A STATED Communication nf Dnnrisle fidtr.- No. 372, F. ft A. M, this (Monday) evening, April 27, 1871. J. W. GILLIES, W. M. Notice to Water Consumers. Omen or Tbcbtshs or Wtie Works, I Co .tMBUS, O. April 25, 1874 ) WATER RENTS ARE DUE AND PAYABLE on the first day of Msr, at ibe oSice of the Water Works. Ten per cent, will be added if not paid within ten days from date. Any one neglecting or refusing to pay the water rent when due, the water will be turned off and not turned on "gain until all back rents shall haye been paid and the further sum of one dollar for turning off and on the water, fees sections 24, 25, 2ti and 27 of the rules for the government of the Water Works. It j; R. ARMSTRONG, Sec'y. Pressed Cake Soaps. WE OFFER GREATER INDUCEMENTS in the above style of soxps than any other manufacturers in tbe United Siatec Heretofore Pressed Cake Soans have been sold at fancy prices by other manufacturers, but we sell our Queen Olive, impress Olive, DuchesH Olive, And Princess Olive At the same margin of profit as staple soaps, therefore cheaper to cunsumers as well as dealers. . Smple cakes furnished gratis npon request of dealers only. PROCTOR & GAMBLE. np27eod3m IIM I .AT1 OHIO. IWIUBASCE DlFABTlf 'XT, 8TAH t OHIO, "J Cuu'miu-, Jhq 28, 1874. WHEREAS, THEj TRAVELLERS' INSUIl-ANCE ConiHiiy, located ttt HartiorJ, in the State of Connecticut, him tiled in thin office h ftwornstHtement, hy the proper ohVevn thereof, showing its condition and busmen, and has complied in all respects with the luwtt of thin Htate reliiting to such Itisurunce Companion, organised by Hot of Oongrena, or by or under the I aw a of any other State of the United fsliiten; Now, thebkvoeb, lu puttuiiince of law, I, William F. Church, Superintendent of Insurance for the State of Ohio, do hereby certify thai naid company is auUioriefid to transact its appropriate business of bite and Accident Insurance iu this State, in accordance with law, during the current year. The condition and business of aaid company at the date of sueh statement (Dec. 31, 1873,) is shown as follows: Amount of Joint 8tock or Guarantee Capital pard up $ 600,000 00 Aggregate amount of Admitted As sets Z.lW fit ITnadm itted AssetB amount- inato $1 Ml fl.41 Aggregate amount of Liabilities in duuing Sl,5b4,02 for reinsurance reserve .1,742,988 01 Amount of income for the preceding year in cash 1,3(12,357 00 Amount of expenditures for the preceding year in cash 045,557 3tt Ik witness wiirbrof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of my seal. office to be affixed, the day and year above written. W. F. CHURCH, Superintendent. AGENTS: S. W. ANDERSON, Columbus. WM. WING, Columbus. NOTIOB U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE SPECIAL TAXES, May 1, 1874, to April 30, 1875. Okpics or Uternal Rkvehpb, 1 Wahhinoion, U. 0., Few. 16, 1874. J THE LAW OF DECEMBER 24, 1872, requires every percon engaged in any business, avocation or employment which renders him liable to a SHuCi AL TAX, to firocure and place coiiKpiciionaly u hl ealubiiNhmeut or place of OUsineea, a M Ailf denoiiug the payment uf said SPEOIALTaX for the Special Tax year begir.ning May 1. 1874, before commencing or continuing business after April 30. 1874. The Taxes embraced within the nrovisions of the law above quoted are tbe following, Rectifiers $200 00 Lealere, retail liquor 25 00 Dealers, wholesale liquor 100 00 Deulers in malt liquors, wholesale.., 50 00 lha era in malt liquors, retail 20 00 Dealers in leaf tobacco 25 00 Retail dealers in leaf tubicco 500 00 And on sales of over $1000, fifty cents for every dollar in excess of $1000. Dealers In manufactured tobacco.... 5 00 Manufacturers of ftills ISO 00 And for each still manufactured.. 20 00 And for each worm manufactured 20 CO Manufacturers of tobacco 10 00 Manufacturers of cigars 10 00 Peddlers of tobacco, first-class(iuore than two horses)., 50 00 Peddlers of tobacco, second class (twohorS'S) 25 00 Peddlers of tobacco, third tlass (one horse) 15 00 Peddlers of tobacco, Court h cliifs (on foot or public conveyance 10 00 Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50 00 Brewers of 600 barrel) or more....'. 100 00 Any person, to liable, who shall fail to comply with the foregoine requirements will be subject toseveie penalties Persons or firms litblc to pay any of the Special Taxes name I above must apply to Chas. C. Walcuit, Collector of Internal Revenue st Columbus, Ohio, and psy for and prnsure the Special Tax Stamp or Stamps thef need, prior to Mnv 1, 1874, and WITH-UUT FDRTHKR NOt'CK. J.W. DOfGLASS, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. apt Itaw4w AX OKWIXAXCE To ftssesfl a special Ux upon the real estate boundinii Center alley, from Livingston aveniiM to Hinehait alley. Wectioh 1. Be if memntd 6v the Citv Vwif ofth CVyof GJNmbifi, O., That the sum of 18 centa v 2-10 mills, be and the same ia herebr levied and assessed upon eai h foot front of the aeTeral lots of land Ixwndinp or abutting upon Outer alley, from Livingston avenue to Kine-hartallev.Hs the same is designated upon the pi it of the City Civil Enpineer, on file in the office of theCitr Clerk, for the rnsts and expense of grading the roadway, grading and paving the gutter alone thf same, arvording to the estimate of the Citv Civil Engineer. Hre. i. That the owners of the several lots of land upon which the foregoing assessment is made, shall pay the amounts of tnonev by them severally due in that behalf to Jaeob Ge gle withm twenty days from the date of the fina Findication of thia ordiusm-e, or be subiect to he interest and penalty allowed upon the awn by law. Paaaed Marc a tt. A- D. 1874. JoHNU. MITCHELL, President of the City Council. Attest : Fftan Wilsos. City Clerk, ap.4 2t f fc)uaJ to tbe beat and cheap Prlatlaf, m the cheapest, At thn OhU (SUU JonrnaL

sm i . tm mm m .mm mm m .jaarm . IDttJU i - , VOL. XXXV. i COLUMBUS MoKDAYf APRIL 27, 1874. NO. 99. SIEBERT & LILLEY, Blank Book Manufacturers. ;i J , ViJi- x-.-.-.'i. . -V Printers, Binders, Stationers And Legal Blank Publishers. BOOK BINDING Of every description, by the Edition or ' Ut4 tingle Volume, v ' ; OPEBA lions E BUILDING, (Up Stairs.) ; '" .' i TcoLCMBirs.'. inrJO-J' 1 1 , Olllcei lllsh, Pearl mid Clinpel Sis. m. oomli. . a. with. A. w. ihanchco. COMLY, SMITH & FRANCISCO, Pl'R!,t"HEK(l AND PBOPR1 ETORS. ,ia.,ii:n hi. cosily, Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY Studer's Columbus and the Weekly, Ohio State Journal, One v8ar for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents! LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Congress. Aprii 25. The Senate was not in session. The Houbc resumed consideration of the Legislative Appropriation bill in cotfimittee of the Whole, and adopted the amendment, by Mr. Garfield, appropriating one million dollars to pay judgments of the Court of Claims. On a motion by Mr. Nesniilh, of Oregon, to strike out from the paragraph relating to the Department of Justice an item of $1400 for the care and subsistence of horses, and $000 for repairs to carriage and harness, a long, spirited and soitiewhat personal debate arose relating to the general subject of appropriation of Government horses and carriage to private use in the Departments. Mr. Xesmith's amendment was agreed to 85 to 09. A further amendment was adopted forbidding any Government officer to receive perquisites, hereafter, outside of his regular salary. The third section of the bill, increasing the office hours of the Department! from six to seven, was struck out on motion of Mr. Lawrence. Consideration of the bill was then concluded, and the House adjourned. Constitutional Convention. April 25. Numerous tempernnce petitions were presented, as usual, and the debate on propositions in regard to the liquor traffic was resumed. A proposed section authorizing license, with an amendment empowering the General Assembly to provide at the same time agiiust the evils resulting from traffic in liquors, was ordered printed. Xo other conclusion wus reached. The Sunday Commercial yesterday was a splendid number. The Graphic has a capital likeness of George Alfred Townsend, April 21. Also, one of Murat Halstead, April 24. . Both are the best likenesses of their respective originals we have seen anywhere. A gentleman writes from Newark: "Not only does Newark give the Postoflice Department a postoffice free, but they have carried the mails free also, for five years, between the depot and the post-office. Coshocton also fitted up a room for nothing;" New York merchants and business men want orders from the South and West. The South and West want currency to pay for the goods ordered. Where is the currency ? Cleveland llcrold. It generally gravitates, toward the people who have saleable articles, and a way of getting them to market. What do the discontented inflationists mean by saying that the veto has unset tied everything, anil thrown us back to where we were last December, so far as the settlement of the currency question is concerned? Don't the veto settle the question ? It occurs to us the question in pretty definitely settled that we Bhall have no further inflation. And the question seems settled with equal definitenesg that Congress will not vote for contraction. If we have neither inflation nor contraction, it would seem that the currency is pretty sure to remain in statu quo which is next best thing to a specie basis. Mr. Joseph Smxivant has from Prof. Mendenhall, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, a dozen or so specimens of "Pendulum Autographs," which are exquisitely beautiful in their perfection of form. These autographs were obtained Prof. Mendenhall says, by one of the young men in the physical department during last week. They were produced ' by means of the "great iron pendulum weight 80 lbs., suspended from two . points. A glass pen was fastened to the lowest point, and the . autographs are actual traces from the vibrations. The suspension being known, the vibrations can be predicted, and in every case "come out all right." If we could produce the eccentric and beautiful curves, perfectly rounded, and coming back with unerring accuracy to the point of departure, after an apparently inextricable mate of wan dering, but symmetrical motion, the read er would see the point to this "accurate prediction." No finer tracings have ever been published. Prof. Mendenhall says We are assured on the most competent authority, that this College has the beat, ' ' and so far as is known, the only Physical Laboratory ia the West, where the etu ' dents are engaged in daily practice and original research. The same can be said of the value of the Chemical and Zo ological Departments, and Geology. The Trustees and Professors of this College are enthusiastic in their work to a degree that amsunta to something like religious devotion. , ,' , ' ' " "'' Tbe West Made noiirt and Happy. "The West has a large population which is silent in politics, but is accustomed to think for itself. There ia more culture there than our Eastern pesple suppose. Many of the Western journals are showing an acuteness and breadth of culture in their discussions on the currency, which will soon educate their readers. We have unlimited faith in discussion, especially with an intelligent population like the Western." Sev York Times, y - It was mighty polite of the New York Time's to put it so handsome. " The West," says The Times, "is all that part of the United States lying beyond the Al-leghanies." As part of that insignificant section, now just brought into notice by the kindness of The Times, we beg to tender our sincere acknowledgments. If the English gentleman who holds the reins of this Jonathan Jupiter will only oome West, we insure him a hearty Western' Welcome. He shall go out with us to Chief Justice Chase's old place, in Columbus, and Bhoot buffalo. Chase was a rough cuss a real Western man. He always liked to have plenty of buffalo to kill when he came home on a visit, and all the Indian scouts hereabout respected his wishes. They would just as soon have worn store clothes as kill one of Chase's buffaloes. Justice Swayne's ' old place, too, is only half a square from Chase's. Swayne ain't much for buffalo, but in case of any little amusement springing up in Court he could scalp the opposing counsel as quick as Kit Carson himself. He wears all the scalps under his judicial robe, when he sits on the Supreme bench at Washington. It wouldn't be a bad notion for our English friend to bring Whitelaw Eeid along, too. He is an Ohio boy, and he knows our "Wild West ern Ways." (He is running The Tribune now, you know.) Quincy Ward knows us, too. Born here. Howells of the Atlantic wouldn't be a bad fellow to bring along. When noweils gets his hunting shirt and moccasins on, and has himself done up in Vermillion and eagle feathers, he makes a very conspicuous figure on our streets. Tbe last time he was here we saw as many as two dozen turkeys, besides other wild game, on one of the principal streets, in front of the residence of the writer, in point of fact. We have deer, antelope, bison, members of the Legislature, wild turkeys, and other game, right on the streets, in season ; fish also, in every variety. By the way, Chief Justice Waite is another specimen of Western culture, who might make it interesting for the editor of the Times a few days in Toledo. Waite generally spends his time when he is at home Bpearing frogs off the steps of the Oliver House at Toledo. Grant isn't a bad specimen, either, but he is busy just now, writing veto messages. Delano, too, is one of our men, but he has to help Grant. If you have a taste for the mili tary, you will find General Sherman (we call him "Cump" out here) just about the best man on a bum we have ever bad in Columbus. In fact he made a lively Hood bumming around down South during the war. Sheridan is another jolly boy. There are Btill some of the aborigines left among us, though they are gradually scattering out, east and west. Donn Piatt may not be unknown to you. When he wears his native hue of resolution he is a warrior of the Miami Tribe, but this is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought when he straddles the tripod of the Washington Capital. Halstead, also, belongs to the Miamis, and was the great historian of its blue haired maidens be fore he became editor of the Cincinnati Commercial. On reflection, Bob Schenck would be the very man to bring bar English friend West. Bob understands the etiquette of St. James, and is equally at home here where his home is, and where we all like him. Besides, Bub is the best poker player on the two continents. Just speak to the President of the Erie Railroad Company, who is another Ohio man, and he will undoubtly place a special car at your service, in order that you may see the wonders of the wild West. If the New York Sun can spare its biographical editor, by his Cumming along you might be able to find the truly good man of the Gazette, whose fame has gone abroad through all the wilderness about Cincinnati.We have purposely mentioned only a few Ohio men who have escaped from their native wilds so far as to make them selves known to a few people in the East other Western States may be left to take care of themselves, There are also a few other Ohio people, both in and out of this State, whose names it might be tedious to mention, that would be glad doubtless to reciprocate the politenesBof the editor of The Times in some way, if he would but come among us. There is not a log cabin in Columbus where he would not be made welcome as the flowers in May. He would have to run the gaunt let of the squaws, but this is mere tender fooling when they really feel friendly, as they .would to any person who pays such pretty compliments as the editor of The Times. It it absurd on the part of the Repub. lican inflationists to claim that the Presi dent was inclined to approve the inflation policy until "overwhelmed by lobbyists from New England and New York, and his own better judgment stifled." The message is in precise consistency with the views expressed by President Grant on every occasion where he has ever ex pressed any views on the subject of Finance. If our inflation friends have been misled it is because they have been self-deceived. Over and over again the enterprising correspondents have announced changes ; have announced that the President had no views of his own that be was indebted even for thi very language he used to some person willing to reap the advantages of his supposed influence at the White House. And over and over again th President has gone on, with unimpaired cheerfulness, doing precisely what the enterprising correspondents have said he would not do, and maintaining an inexorable . consistency with his own repeated declarations of policy. The -only ' thing left for the enterprising correspondents,' thereupon, is to pretend to their deluded readers that the President did change his mind, and that no reliance is to be placed upon his fickle judgment. " It is perfectly marvellous how long it lakes for the gullible public to understand that the enterprising correspondents have been ignorant and reckless, in setting false rumors afloat with their indorsement, and that the President has kept on his course precisely as he has announced from the beginning. The public seems willing to be gulled by suspicions and false rumors as often as the ingenious forger of news cares to amuse himself in that way. The last thing the credulous public thinks of is to doubt the accuracy of accounts which would lead it to. believe that the President is going seven different ways at once, and has no mind of his own in any one of the seven. The brief and concise facts of the veto are, that it is perfectly consistent with the President's oft repeated declarations on that subject. Moreover, it is in accord ance with congressional pledges, repeated in every act passed with reference to the currency, and is upheld and, supported in effect by the party platforms of both the great National parties at the last Presidential election. The following extracts decorate the title page of General Garfield's recent anti-inflation speech in Congress : "Thou shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be length ened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." Dent, in, 15. "A false balance is abomination to the Lord; but a just weight is his delight." Proverbs, it, 1. "Capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper." Thomas Jef ferson. " We are in danger ot being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper repi senting, not gold, nor silver, no, sir representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people." Daniel Webster. Iluxlues education in DemnnrB. Clemens Petersen, in The Galaxy for May.l The third partner in the Scandinavian union is the Danish people, a nation of islanders, very apt to burst into song when they see a stretch of low hills, with some beech trees scattered over the slope; always merry when they feel a western gale sweeping over their faces; sick when they cannot see the ocean, and deeply in love with certain large globe clouds which drift over their sky all the year round, every now and then bursting into roaring rain, and then peacefully retiring behind a brilliantly painted rainbow. The Danes are of ' a mercantile turn of mind. When the English poor laws were under preparation, the English ambassador to Copenhagen sent in a report, in which he struck 'exactly the most characteristic trait in the nature of the Danish people. The first thing, he said, a poor Dane strives to get possession of, is a meerschaum pipe, and the next a clock, not because he likes to smoke, or because he wishes to keep himself posted about the time, but because he intends to trade with them. It is true. A foreigner would be very much surprised at seeing the peasant lads going to church on a Sunday morning, each carrying a meerschaum pipe in his hand, and still more surprised he would be at seeing them return, none carrying the same pipe. They have traded in the meantime. In the church? No, not exactly so. But after service they gather on the lawn outside the high, whitewashed Btone wall.which encircles the churchyard, and here is held a real pipe and clock market, and here is won the first penny of many a great fortune. A M'ouinn Village. The long talked of woman'scomniunity within the limits of tbe town of Woburn, twelve miles from Boston, was actually begun last month, by the raising of the frame of the first building. In this com munity all the land is to be owned by women; and, so far as the management of the affairs of the village is concerned, woman suffrage is to prevail to the utter political di"qualification of men. The members ot tne community are oongeao assent to a constitution which ia to govern it, but further than this they are not restrained ; except, that they are expected to attend, at least once a week, upon the uncertain religious service to be held. This village i to be called Aurora. Each house is to have its garden, the main re liance for moneyed success is to be on co operative schemes. One of these is the establishment of a laundry where full fa cilities are to be aflorded for doing work on a laree scale, and competing with the fa mous Irov laundries. Men are not to be excluded from the village, nor from some ownership of property, nor from the op portunity of work ; but widows and maid en ladies will likely be regarded as pref erable to married women, even though the husband be only a kind of inferior adjutant to the woman. A II nt;e Mlteleton. Popular Science Monthly.! The most remarkable object in the War ren Museum is the largest skeleton of the Mastodon giganteut ever discovered on the continent. By its Bide, in wav of contrast, is the frame of the elephant Pizarro, the largest ever brought to this country. The skeleton of the Mastodon giganteut will not fiil to cause the visitor to start back in awe. and he will be hardly able to sup nuns t Ka f ailionlSifn rf fvnlaj "Trvi n"nat. hie 1" It is twelve feet high,' and thirty-four feet in length, from the tin of the tusks to the extremity of its tail. Its trunk is seventeen feet in length. J he animal must have weighed more than 20,' 000 pounds ! "The premium on gold yesterday de clined totwelveand threeeigntsper centum The premium on Wednesday morning was hirteen and threequartera per cent, iflerence adds to the gold value of The our currency over tevtn miliums ticht kundrrd and ten thtmmnd dollars. Kvery paper dol lar vesterdav was worth over a rent more than the day before." Boston Transcript. And no one's wages reduced in consequence no strikes about it no scarcity of labor or oread; on me contrary, a emwth of confidence, a tense of security. Still the fellows who an expecting to get three hundred new paper dollars esch are in a sad state. -Wimnmut Commercial. The ludicrous has its place in the uni verse: it is not a human invention, but one of the divine ideas, illustrated in the practical jokes of kittens and monkeys long before Aristophanes or bhakeepeare. tfotmtt. , BY TELEGRAPH TO THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL LOWER MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. Interruption of Halls nnd Hallway Travel The Water Keerdlnic at Heine Points and Hl.lns; at Others ajoutluned . C'ousiernatlon and Distress In the Inundated ! trlcM. i New Orleans, April 26. The river is falling," and is now five feet below high water. From five to seven days' mails have been, due from Northern, Eastern an J Western cities. The New York mail of the 15th and some of the .20th is re? ceived, the intervening and subsequent dates missing. The Mobile and New Orleans railroad loses a bridge or has a wash-out every " few days, ' and seems to display much more energy in choking off information in regard to mishaps than they do in getting over breaks. Now at least three important bridges are gone between this city and Mobile. The Jackson route is also in bad condition, bridges being gone and a portion of it submerged. Monroe, La., April 25. The river has risen over an inch in twentyfonr hours. Another break in Pargond upper levee has precipitated a heavy volume of water on the back part of the city, and the rise there at the same time has been five inches. The water has backed up in ditches nearly to the Hunsaker hotel. In some places on the river front the water is from six to fifteen inches above the street, but has been leveed. The rear of the city is filling up fast, about five squares on an average from the river front to the overflow being out of water the length of the city. People continue coming in from the rear as the water approaches. Sidewalks and streets are the only pastures for stock. The loss of cattle and hogs by the overflow is very great. The sun shone all day, and there is a prospect of better weather. No intelligence from above, but another rise is expected from recent rains. MoNnoE, La., April 26. The river rose a quarter of an inch last night, and the backwater an inch and a half. Washington street is overflowed to within three blockB of the river. The river is on a stand to-day, and the weather fair and warm. No intelligence from above or he-low. The railroad company has surrendered its mail contract between here and Yicksburg. The telegraph is now the only source of correspondence. WASHINGTON PROIBED NEW CURRENCY fit IX Washington, April 2G The Senate Finance committee will this week consider the House Finance bill, It is thought by many conservative men that a bill may be formed acceptable to the Senate combining the feature of redemption proposed in that hill with the right to issue additional bank notes on the condition that a certain proportion of legal tender notes shall be withdrawn at the same time, and many are of the opinion that if such a bill shall be reported from the Senate committee with provisions authorizing free banking, it will pass the Senate and House and receive the approval of the President. rations for the inundated. Although Congress passed a bill for the relief of sufferers by the overflow on the lower Mississippi, it has been lound that no supplies can lie spared from the various military stations in that region, and therefore the Secretary of War, after pri vate conference with the President, has directed the Commissary of Subsistence to purchase 500.000 rations of meat, Hour, beans and rice, and, to carry the law into effect, asks an appropriation of $90,000. The estimate is based on an issue to ZU, 000 persons for twenty Ave days. return of general sickles. A private letter from General Sickles says he will return to the United States in two months. ST. LOUIS. Ran Over and Killed-Rellef for Suf ferer by the Lower Mississippi Flood-War Material for the Brooks Faction. St. Louis, April 20. Everett Babbitt, supposed from papers found on his per son, to be Iron. Massachusetts, was run over and killed by a train on tbe Missouri Pacific railroad yesterday afternoon nt Kirkwood, fifteen miles west of this city. The Louisiana Keliet committee yester- ay applied $1000 to aid in preventing the destruction of Miliken's Bend levee, near Vicksburg. Additional contributions of money and provisions Hre being made for the benefit of sufferers from the overflow in Louisiana, Large numbers of the most prominent ladies in the city are arranging for an immense amateur concert sb a means ot adding to this nind. The Times asserts that 2000 Springfield rifles, 13,000 rounds of ammunition and several cases of pistols have been shipped from here in a secret manner ler the use of Brooks's forces at Little Kock since the difficulties broke out. There are also said to have been five car loads of pro visions shipped to the same parlies. CLEVELAND. Diabolical Behavior of an Old Man Large Theft of Laves. Cleveland, April 26. An old man named Lytton White, sixtytwo years of sge, has been arrested for enticing little children into his candy and trinket shop, near a public school, and instructing them in every vulgarity ot speech and practice imaginable. He was sentenced to a year in the work house, and fined three hundred dollars and costs. The victims are said to be counted by scores. Seven thousand dollars worth of laces is reported stolen from the store of Leslie & loung. ino clue to the perpetrators, Arrett of a Swindler. Lafayette, Ind., April 26. An un known man was arrested here this morn ing representing himself as H. C. Hodges, agent for Howe's circus, and bound over in the sum ot zu,uuu to answer in the Criminal Court. He is alleged to have played the same game at two or three other places, making contracts, issuing free tickets, etc. 1. K. ioole, press scent of the show, caught him at it here and caused bisarrest. Snow In H'V Enoiand. Boston. April xu. a severe snow storm, accompanied by a heavy gale, has: prevailed throughout the Jew England States to-dav. Snow fell from six inches to a foot in depth. At Rockland the gale has been the severest experienced for years, and resulted in much damage to shipping. Six or seven vessels are ashore. Twenty inches of snow is reported at Danbury, Uonn. Odd Fellawa Aaaiveraary. Cincinnati, April 26 All the lodges of Odd Fellows in the city met nt Pike's Opera House to-day to celebrate the an' niversarv of the introduction of Odd Feb lowship in the United States. Ssmuel Yorke Atlee, of San Francisco, California, delivered the address. All the lodges ot the city will hold meetings and hear ad dresses to-night. rOHEIGN. ENCII.ANU. U AOEZ CANAL TRdUBLE SETTLED. London, April 28.-Advices from Constantinople are to the tflect that the Suez Canal difficulty has been settled by M. de Lesseps's acceptance of tonnage rates prescribed by the international commission. " n .... .. '.' HEBMANt'."": ' ' CLOSE OF THE REICHSTAG. Berlin, April 20. The Emperor William in perron closed the Reichstag: yesterday with a formal speech of no great importance. STEAMSHIP ARRIVALS. Liverpool, April 26. The steamships Holsatis, from New York, and the Illinois, from Philadelphia, have arrived out. . . i ; SPAIN. , humored application for amnesty. Madrid,. April 2(1. A rumor is current that theCarllBla have asked Marshal Serrano for amnesty. NEW YORK. RUMOR AOUT SENATOR SCHUR1!. New York, April 20. It is reported that Carl Schurz has accepted the editor ship of a leading German daily, at ten thousand dollars per annum, and win remove to New York at the end of his pres ent Senatorial term. LIQUOR LICENSE FEES. The excise commissioners have refused to aid the Liquor Dealers' Protection Association in getting the passage of a bill through the Legislature reducing license fees, etc. A DRAWN MATCH. The pigeon shooting match between Paine and Bogardus became a draw in consequence of the weather yesterday, Paine paying the cxpenseR of Bogardus. INTERNATIONALS DISBANDING. The Federal Council of Internationals resolved last night to dissolve, the organi zation having proved a failure in the United States. DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN. Rev. O. Eastman, honorary Secretaryj of the American Iract Society, died on Friday. He was born at Amherst, Mass., in 1790. Weather Prnbnbllltlcs. Washington. April 28. During Mon day over New England north to west winds, diminishing in force, and generally clear weather will prevail. tut Middle States and Lower Lake region clear or partly cloudy weather, with winds shifting to northeast and southeast over the latter, but to east and south over the former. For South Atlantic and Gulf States east of the Mississippi southwest to southeast winds and clear weather. From Tennessee northward over the Ohio valley to Lake Erie and Upper Lakes increasing south to east winds, rising temperature and threatening weather, with rain. For Missouri south to east winds, cloudy and rainy weather. Terrific Storm or Wind and Know. '. Foucihkeepsie, N. Y., April 20. The storm of yesterday and last night at Boston Corners was terrific, and heavier than known before for years. The Harlem mail train was compelled to lay over at Millenton for fear of being blown from the rails. At Weissmann's Cut the snow was four feet deep. Montpelier, Vt., April 2fi. It began snowing here last evening, and one foot of snow fell in twelve hours. It was one of the heaviest snow storms of the season. B7 MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. The growing wheat in Northern Texas is reported in excellent condition. Colorado has now 700 miles of finished railway. Recent discoveries of gold, silver and lead have been made in the vicinity of Fort Smith, Ark. The United States Mint in San Fran cisco coined ?20,:!41,000 from .Inlv 1. 1873, to March 31, 1874, against $17,001,500 for the entire fiscal year preceding. In 1868 five men robbed a man named Bennehoff, near Meadville, Pa., of half a million dollars. One of them, named Laeger, stole the entire amount from his comrades, and has never since been heard from until last Sunday evening, when he was identified and arrested at Denver, Colorado. ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. Natnral History Society. The Columbus Natural History Society held an interesting meeting on Saturday, in the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture.A number of rare fossils and minerals were shown, among others a collection of one hundred and twenty different Italian and Prussian specimens of marbles, of uniform size, and showing their adaptability to polish and use. Members of the Society reported their observations on the field day, April 18. Over fifty specimens of birds were noted, together with several mammals, mollusks, and a limited num ber of flowering plants. The ponds along the Little Miami railroad, near Sullivant's Hill, were reported as aflbrding a great number of species of the smaller contra- ceaus and such animals as can be best studied under the microscope. Dr. Town- send read a short paper on Spurious Vaccination.It was decided to hold another field meeting in May, probably at Flint Ridge, Muskingum county. Loral Personal. Hon. W. P. Kerr, of the Constitutional Convention, was in the city on Saturday. Captain John A. Arthur has severed his connection with Springfield Leader, L. G. Manypenny has returned from Missouri to permanently reside in Colum bus. Colonel James Taylor and Colonel J, W. Free, of New Lexington)' are in the city. Coates Kinney, of Xenia, left for home Saturday evening, after interviewing Co lumbus for a couple of days. Mr. Thompson will enter upon the dis charge of his duties as Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs to-day. Commissions have been issued to seven hundred and twentythree Justices of the Peace elected on the 6th of April, and the " commission " banner still hangs on the outer wallt The 29th of May is the date named for tbe meeting of the Ohio State Editorial Association In this city. Mr. Joshua Saxton, of the Urbana Cititen, is the President. Fora-etfulnest of Words. All the Year Round. Dr. Abercrombie records an instance of a gentleman who uniformly called his snuff-box a hogshead. When reminded of the error he probably recognized it, but his tendency was, nevertheless, in this direction. His physician hypothetically traced the oddity to an early and long-continued association of ideas. The gentleman had been a tobacco merchant in Virginia, and had his attention well occupied with hogsheads of tobacco and boxes of snuff. This may not be a sufficient explanation, but it was the only one that suggested itself, as he made no similar blunder with other words. Certainly a greater difficulty was presented by the gentleman who always called coals paper and paper coals, systematically, as it would appear, transposing the meanings of the two words. Both substances, it is true, are used in lighting a fire; but this fact does not suffice to solve the puzzle. An inability to remember the names of things sometimes presents itself in a remarkable way. A gentleman engaged in extensive agricultural affairs could not remember the spoken names of things, but recognized them directly when written. He arranged his daily duties accordingly, and with a degree of success that could be expected under the circumstances. He kept before him in his business room a list of words which were most likely to occur in his intercourse with his workmen. When any one of his men wished to communicate with him on any subject, the master listened attentively to what was said; the sound of the words did not convey to his mind the idea of the things or commodities signified, but it did suggest to him written words, which he therefore proceeded to consult. The sight of the letters forming those words at once gave him the necessary clue to the meaning.The process was noteworthy ; the sound of a word, when spoken, suggested the shape of the word when written, and this Bhape suggested the ideaor mental picture of the thing signified. This appears to have been i permanent peculiarity of mind, or, at least, of long continuance, unconnect ed with any particular malady. In an other case, which came under the notice of Dr. Gregory, a lady, consequent on an apoplectic fit, lost her memory of names, but retained it for things. Although a good housewife, she could only direct her servants and trades-people by pointing to the things concerning which she meant to speak. All went on well in regard to the other words of a sentence, but when she came to the names of things, memory failed her, and she could only convey her meaning by pointing. 'Flfl j Uollnrs, or 1 Scream." St. Louis Uispatch, April 20. The pranks of a lady at least in appearance along the line of the Missouri Pacific railroad recently have caused the depletion of the pocketbooks of several hotel proprietors at different towns, and among them Warrensburg, and while the money was parted with, there is still at least peace in the landlords' households. It will suffice to narrate how tliipj female "did her little job" at Warrensburg, as related to a Dispatch reporter: She visited the town in the capacity of a book agent, to impress upon the incredulous the advantage to be gained by a subscription to the "most interesting and instructive work ever published." Arriving in town at noon, she immediately went to a hotel, which shall be nameless, and registered. She was shown to a room and made her toilette. The next step was to ring a bell which ushered a boy in her presence, to whom she communicated the fact that she desired to see the landlord. The message was delivered to the landlord, and in the course of a few minutes he met her face to face in her room. ' As he entered the room she quietly locked the door, and placing the key in her pocket, said : "Now, Mr. , I wish to have a few moments' chat with you." "Well, ma'am," replied the landlord, "what you have to say, say it quickly, for I am in a hurry." In a very self-composed manner the book agent drew herself up, and said she : "Now, Mr. , you are a married man, are vou not ?" "Yes, ma'am" meekly replied the land lord "You have children, two of whom are nearly of age, have you not I" "Yes, ma'am," again replied the hus band "Well, then." said the book agent, "if vou have any respect for vourseli er lam ily, pay me fifty dollars or I will scream." the landlord was bewildered, and being mild-mannered man protested only in well-rounded phrases. This but made matters worse, and desiring to avoid a disagreeable reflection upon his wife and children he agreed to pay her btty dol lars, which he did, and on the evening train she left for Pleasant Hill, where, it IB said, she played the same game. The landlord at Warrensburg thinks it rather expensive to pay fifty dollars to keep a woman from screaming, but there are only a few who know of it, and being rather digmhed gentleman, and one whose private character is spotless, he is not joked about it. Prodis of Minnesota Farmers. The Minnesota Tribune of April 15 says 'Minnesota farmers have pretty generally disposed of their surplus wheat, and it is sale to say that they have realized, on an average, a dollar a bushel on all they have sold. Prices have ruled from six to twelve cents higher this winter than they did last; the winter has been open, the sleighing excellent, so that there has been no reasonable excuse for farmers holding their wheat over. Most of them, we are glad to know, have sold, got their money, paid some of their debts, and made more extensive preparations than usual for putting in crops this year, the wheat crop of 1873 wss the salvation ot Minnesota during the panic which swept over the land. ami we come out of a financially hard winter in a far better condition than we were in a year ago, when there was no panic." Looking back at the strange and erro neous notions which wen formerly entertained of the nature and cause of insani ty, and considering what little observation was made of its manifold varieties, we cannot wonder that its jurisprudence was in a very defective state. At first two kinds of insanitr onlv seem to have been recognized by English law idiocy and lunacy: the idiot who, Irom his nativity, by a perpetual infirmity is turn com pot, and the lunatic who bath sometimes nis un demanding, and sometimes not, aliquanda gaudet lueidit intermllis, and therefore is .on compos mentis, so long ss he hath not understanding, out as time went on partial insanity was recognized ss distinct from total insanity, although this partial insanity was declared not to absolve a person from responsibility for his crimin al acts. Money never made a man happy yet. nor will it, i here is nothing in its ns lure to produce happiness. The more a man has the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it sat isfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another wav. That was a true prov erb of the wise man, relv npon it i Bet ter is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith. rrentas. ODDS AND ENDS.' The most enterprising speculator in numan Hair me wild Indian. . How to get rich Learn to'lfte on air and sleep on a clothes line. . - Is it good English to ask the gunsmith "What ia the price of that air gun?" ' Home-made sausages have suddenly got into great demand. "Love me. love my dog." There is one town in Connecticut that is not afraid of the measles. It's Had-dam. i .i...-ii--- Ideas are the persons of the intellect, and persons the idess of the heart.!'. Parker, ... : An old wine-bibber Bays that an empty champagne bottle is like an orphan, because it has lost its pop. A doctor was once asked to dance the "Lancers." He declined ; but expressed a willingness to lance the dancers. I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one. Not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer is the easier. Seneca. There is some virtue in almost every vice except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. Haxlitt. Glycerine and whisky is the last remedy for a cold. Care should be used in selecting tbe whisky. The glycerine is not of so much consequence. Boston Globe. Classical students will please finish this sentence with a familiar article of diet: "When the Greeks looked at Plato and Socrates, they " Yes; that's right. They ssw sages, of course. "Don't prevaricate, sir I" thundered a Columbiad judge to a witness from the mine. "Can't help it, Judge," answered the miner. "Ever since I got a kick from a mule that knocked my teeth out I prevaricate a good deal." Divine wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a vail the prospect of life to come; for, if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast?- Once, When preaching at Wapping to a congregation composed principally of seafaring men and fisherwomen, Howland Hill greatly astonished bis congregation by commencing his sermon with these words : "I come to preach to you great sinners, notorious sinners yea, to Wapping sinners V It is not work that kills men, it's worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices Beecher. "Does this razor go easy?" asked the barber of a victim who was writhing under a clumsy instrument whose chief recommendation was a strong handle. "Well," replied the poor fellow, "that depends upon what you call this operation. If you are skinning me, it goes tolerably easy; but if you are shaving me, it goes rather hard." A correspondent of the Key Wett Dis patch Bays that on Cozumel Island are yet to be seen the walls of the first church ever built on the continent of North America. Cortez was the builder, before he conquered Mexico. The foundation and walls are yet partly preserved, each side having an elevation of about ten feet in places. The altar is nvprornwn wirh brush, and wild flowers bloom and birds sing over the tombs of the eariy adven turers. An old Parisian beggar, famous for his success, thusexplains the business "rules" to which, he says, he invariably adheres : "I never ask alms of any one who haB dined, as ro6i renders a man selfish; nor a stout man, as it bores them to stop; nor of any one putting on his gloves; nor of a lady alone; but always of any one manl- te8lly going to dinner; of people walking together, as -their amour propre makes them generous; of officers in grand uniforms, and of people apparently seeking favors from the Government they think that a gift will bring them luck." You have heard of the man who. come down the river in a flatboat, moored tbe boat to the bank, and going up into the timber, saw a fellow climbing first one tree, then rapidly descending (and occasionally falling), running to another tree and repeating the operation. Continuing this for some time, the natboatman asked him what he was doing, , The stranger, pointing to a woodpecker on the topmost branch, asked the flatboatman if he saw that woodpecker. "Yes," said the other, "but you certainly do not expect to catch it?" "No, of course not." said the stranger, "but I will worry it," an epitaph. I will be rich f I said, And I stn poor; I will be great I And I tm Irsst of All. . When I am I1, ssid 1, And 1 sm dend ; 1 will be loved t And 1 sm clean forgot; I 1 will be wiiie I This one truth have I learned That death alone was certain in lny life. Social Relations in France. Albert Rhodes, in The Guitar for Ma)'. The liens which bind relations together are close and strong; hence the prudence exercised by parents in the choice of a husband for their daughter, or a wife for their son. The man who marries the daughter also marries her family, to the cousin eerman. Ihe parents look at possible husband for their daughter with a riew to a close and constant association. and they exercise a close and vigilant watch lest her affections should become engaged in a qusrter not approved by them. Ihe parental authority is admit ted to such an extent, that if the young man were to propose a marriage lo their daughter, without consulting them, he would tie held as a dishonorable man; the proposition is made to them, and they give the answer, in some instances with out the daughters knowledge. Ill is brings about solidarity in the family, com posed of members predisposed to kind li ness and sympathy, and it also gives rise to uneasiness when a new element is pre sented for admission lest it should dis turb harmony. Through intimacy and sympathy they have accommodated them' selves to each other's habits and ca prices, and have succeeded In living in the same groove. The French are much attached to their habits, the proof of which is, that they can never entirely ac commodate themselves to those of other lands, but after a season of nostagia return to those of their native country. This tenscity to hshit sometimes assumes a form that is ludicrous. Matrimonial propositions hsve been refused because the candidate disliked the game of brtique or the novels 01 Diimsa. A possible mar riaoe connection with a foreigner of differ ent religion and race, ia regarded with disfavor, and the daughter is kept away from such temptation by general holding stool irom loreign intercourse. There is much going to and fro between family connections in France, in the wav of dinners, breakfssts and quiet parties of pleasure. Jsesid tbe social intercourse, there are close relations in practical affairs. If a member of th family enter- tains a proposition in a matter of business, it is submitted to his wife, and probably to all his immediate connections, before it is decided upon. This is in striking contrast to the American, who often concludes aihurs involving the half of his fortune, without his wife's knowledge. It is carried to an extent that is wearisome in France. . , - , HARRIED. Sraaucx Zin Apiil 21, by Rev. I. P. Stidbam, at th) residence of the bride's mether, Mr. J. 8. Mtabbuck. of Union City. Indiana, and Miss Sarah Zinn. New Advertisements. MASONIC. THERE WILL BE A STATED Communication nf Dnnrisle fidtr.- No. 372, F. ft A. M, this (Monday) evening, April 27, 1871. J. W. GILLIES, W. M. Notice to Water Consumers. Omen or Tbcbtshs or Wtie Works, I Co .tMBUS, O. April 25, 1874 ) WATER RENTS ARE DUE AND PAYABLE on the first day of Msr, at ibe oSice of the Water Works. Ten per cent, will be added if not paid within ten days from date. Any one neglecting or refusing to pay the water rent when due, the water will be turned off and not turned on "gain until all back rents shall haye been paid and the further sum of one dollar for turning off and on the water, fees sections 24, 25, 2ti and 27 of the rules for the government of the Water Works. It j; R. ARMSTRONG, Sec'y. Pressed Cake Soaps. WE OFFER GREATER INDUCEMENTS in the above style of soxps than any other manufacturers in tbe United Siatec Heretofore Pressed Cake Soans have been sold at fancy prices by other manufacturers, but we sell our Queen Olive, impress Olive, DuchesH Olive, And Princess Olive At the same margin of profit as staple soaps, therefore cheaper to cunsumers as well as dealers. . Smple cakes furnished gratis npon request of dealers only. PROCTOR & GAMBLE. np27eod3m IIM I .AT1 OHIO. IWIUBASCE DlFABTlf 'XT, 8TAH t OHIO, "J Cuu'miu-, Jhq 28, 1874. WHEREAS, THEj TRAVELLERS' INSUIl-ANCE ConiHiiy, located ttt HartiorJ, in the State of Connecticut, him tiled in thin office h ftwornstHtement, hy the proper ohVevn thereof, showing its condition and busmen, and has complied in all respects with the luwtt of thin Htate reliiting to such Itisurunce Companion, organised by Hot of Oongrena, or by or under the I aw a of any other State of the United fsliiten; Now, thebkvoeb, lu puttuiiince of law, I, William F. Church, Superintendent of Insurance for the State of Ohio, do hereby certify thai naid company is auUioriefid to transact its appropriate business of bite and Accident Insurance iu this State, in accordance with law, during the current year. The condition and business of aaid company at the date of sueh statement (Dec. 31, 1873,) is shown as follows: Amount of Joint 8tock or Guarantee Capital pard up $ 600,000 00 Aggregate amount of Admitted As sets Z.lW fit ITnadm itted AssetB amount- inato $1 Ml fl.41 Aggregate amount of Liabilities in duuing Sl,5b4,02 for reinsurance reserve .1,742,988 01 Amount of income for the preceding year in cash 1,3(12,357 00 Amount of expenditures for the preceding year in cash 045,557 3tt Ik witness wiirbrof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of my seal. office to be affixed, the day and year above written. W. F. CHURCH, Superintendent. AGENTS: S. W. ANDERSON, Columbus. WM. WING, Columbus. NOTIOB U. S. INTERNAL REVENUE SPECIAL TAXES, May 1, 1874, to April 30, 1875. Okpics or Uternal Rkvehpb, 1 Wahhinoion, U. 0., Few. 16, 1874. J THE LAW OF DECEMBER 24, 1872, requires every percon engaged in any business, avocation or employment which renders him liable to a SHuCi AL TAX, to firocure and place coiiKpiciionaly u hl ealubiiNhmeut or place of OUsineea, a M Ailf denoiiug the payment uf said SPEOIALTaX for the Special Tax year begir.ning May 1. 1874, before commencing or continuing business after April 30. 1874. The Taxes embraced within the nrovisions of the law above quoted are tbe following, Rectifiers $200 00 Lealere, retail liquor 25 00 Dealers, wholesale liquor 100 00 Deulers in malt liquors, wholesale.., 50 00 lha era in malt liquors, retail 20 00 Dealers in leaf tobacco 25 00 Retail dealers in leaf tubicco 500 00 And on sales of over $1000, fifty cents for every dollar in excess of $1000. Dealers In manufactured tobacco.... 5 00 Manufacturers of ftills ISO 00 And for each still manufactured.. 20 00 And for each worm manufactured 20 CO Manufacturers of tobacco 10 00 Manufacturers of cigars 10 00 Peddlers of tobacco, first-class(iuore than two horses)., 50 00 Peddlers of tobacco, second class (twohorS'S) 25 00 Peddlers of tobacco, third tlass (one horse) 15 00 Peddlers of tobacco, Court h cliifs (on foot or public conveyance 10 00 Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50 00 Brewers of 600 barrel) or more....'. 100 00 Any person, to liable, who shall fail to comply with the foregoine requirements will be subject toseveie penalties Persons or firms litblc to pay any of the Special Taxes name I above must apply to Chas. C. Walcuit, Collector of Internal Revenue st Columbus, Ohio, and psy for and prnsure the Special Tax Stamp or Stamps thef need, prior to Mnv 1, 1874, and WITH-UUT FDRTHKR NOt'CK. J.W. DOfGLASS, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. apt Itaw4w AX OKWIXAXCE To ftssesfl a special Ux upon the real estate boundinii Center alley, from Livingston aveniiM to Hinehait alley. Wectioh 1. Be if memntd 6v the Citv Vwif ofth CVyof GJNmbifi, O., That the sum of 18 centa v 2-10 mills, be and the same ia herebr levied and assessed upon eai h foot front of the aeTeral lots of land Ixwndinp or abutting upon Outer alley, from Livingston avenue to Kine-hartallev.Hs the same is designated upon the pi it of the City Civil Enpineer, on file in the office of theCitr Clerk, for the rnsts and expense of grading the roadway, grading and paving the gutter alone thf same, arvording to the estimate of the Citv Civil Engineer. Hre. i. That the owners of the several lots of land upon which the foregoing assessment is made, shall pay the amounts of tnonev by them severally due in that behalf to Jaeob Ge gle withm twenty days from the date of the fina Findication of thia ordiusm-e, or be subiect to he interest and penalty allowed upon the awn by law. Paaaed Marc a tt. A- D. 1874. JoHNU. MITCHELL, President of the City Council. Attest : Fftan Wilsos. City Clerk, ap.4 2t f fc)uaJ to tbe beat and cheap Prlatlaf, m the cheapest, At thn OhU (SUU JonrnaL